{"id":221997,"date":"2026-01-26T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-sudans-war-has-become-a-systematic-assault-on-women\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:59:51","slug":"sudan-sudans-war-has-become-a-systematic-assault-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-sudans-war-has-become-a-systematic-assault-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Sudan&#8217;s War Has Become a Systematic Assault On Women&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Sudan&#8217;s war, now more than 1,000 days old, has shifted from a military confrontation to what feminist and human rights groups describe as a widespread and systematic assault on women and girls.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking to Radio Dabanga&#8217;s women-focused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/ar\/category-ar\/dabanga-programs-ar\/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88-%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kanadaka and Miriam (\u0643\u0646\u062fl\u0643l\u062a \u0648 \u0645\u0649l\u0631\u0645)<\/a> programmes, activists and researchers said sexual violence is being used deliberately to terrorise communities, amid the collapse of protection systems and near-total impunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Women, they stressed, are now at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260721.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s war, now more than 1,000 days old, has shifted from a military confrontation to what feminist and human rights groups describe as a widespread and systematic assault on women and girls. Speaking to Radio Dabanga&#8217;s women-focused Kanadaka and Miriam (\u0643\u0646\u062fl\u0643l\u062a \u0648 \u0645\u0649l\u0631\u0645) programmes, activists and researchers said sexual violence is being used deliberately to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680589:fc60a6c9737e5ca31366c03cc72c51f5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,11975,257,254,4708,1613,8105,25297,6618,6524],"class_list":["post-221997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assault","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-systematic","tag-war","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680589:fc60a6c9737e5ca31366c03cc72c51f5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}